“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 195–203.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-195-203

Vasetsky Viacheslav
Protection of human rights and freedoms as a component of legal implementation in the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon legal families

The article examines the issues of law enforcement in the context of the problem of implementing human rights as the highest value of a modern democratic society, which is inherent in the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon legal systems. The issues of law enforcement have become particularly relevant in connection with the legal reforms that will necessarily take place in Ukraine after the end of the war and will be associated with both changes in current legislation and compliance with certain legal norms by individuals, society and the state. Law enforcement is considered as a process, as a complex phenomenon, which, along with its consideration through the concept of legal regulation, includes other dimensions: the peculiarity of the social phenomena that occur; principles and value orientations that determine and accompany law enforcement. In the Romano-Germanic legal system, certain stages of the law enforcement process are separated from these positions.
The purpose of the work is to analyze the implementation of law in the context of the problem of the implementation of human rights as the highest value of a modern democratic society, which is inherent in the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon legal systems and determines the mutual influence of state-legal and case-law doctrines in the field of the implementation of human rights.
The problem of the implementation of human rights is considered based on the concept of «legal implementation» in a broad sense as a system of principles and norms, value factors, mental aspects of the development of society. The principles on which the implementation of legal norms is based include the following: legality, justification, expediency, the principle of social justice. R. David argues that the law of the countries of the Romano-Germanic legal family is always law based on principles, as the system requires.
It is noted that in the process of law enforcement, the decisions of the European
Court of Human Rights based on case law and their implementation by states demonstrate the modern process of interpenetration of case law and positivist legal principles. The implementation in Ukraine of the provisions of the European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms determines the legal responsibility of the Ukrainian state to ensure the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of man and citizen. It has been found that a feature of the legal responsibility of the Ukrainian state to protect fundamental human rights and freedoms of man is that the state is the responsible party.
It is concluded that the issues of law enforcement have become particularly relevant in connection with the legal reforms that will necessarily take place in Ukraine after the end of the war. Changes in the legal sphere reflect an essential feature of law enforcement — dynamism, that is, the activity of subjects in the process of law enforcement, which is not a one-time act, but a continuous process aimed at implementing the provisions of the legislation, which are capable of transformation in accordance with the changed social relations. In the system of social relations, as can be predicted, the necessary balance will be found between the issues of both the security of the state and society, and the issue of ensuring human rights and freedoms, which is a necessary condition for additional security guarantees from the side of civil society and each person individually.

Key words: law enforcement, human rights, legal responsibility of the state, dynamism of the law enforcement process

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